Al-Qaida is still a threat to U.S. and its allies

By all accounts, the attack was planned with care and executed with precision. At two notorious Iraqi prisons, Abu Ghraib and Taji, al-Qaida combatants last week used mortars, small arms, suicide bombers and assault forces to free 400 prisoners, including several who had been on death row. Al-Qaida spokesmen hailed those released as “mujahedeen,” holy warriors who will rejoin the jihad on battlefields throughout the Middle East and beyond.